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To: Scumbria who wrote (99529)3/22/2000 8:32:00 PM
From: brushwud  Respond to of 1580338
 
>What is the sensible reason for disabling half the cache? Demand is good?
>
> Market differentiation.

When I see a Culeron, it will give me a warm, fuzzy feeling to know that Elmer says it is "highly unlikely" that the disabled half was defective.



To: Scumbria who wrote (99529)3/22/2000 8:35:00 PM
From: Elmer  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1580338
 
Re: "Do you remember the 486SX? It was identical to the 486DX, except that the Floating Point Unit was disabled"

This is totally wrong. The 486SX was a completely different die and had no FPU on it at all.

EP


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